The Jomon hunter-gatherer way of life, enriched and transformed by the making of Jomon pottery, didn't radically change for over 14, 000 years.

绳纹陶器的制作，丰富与改造了绳纹人这种狩猎与采集的生活方式；而后在一万四千年的漫漫岁月中，一切没有多大的改变。

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But the leisure and sedentary existence that the Jomon would have required for their pottery have generally been supposed to result from climatic changes at the end of the ice age.

ECONOMIST: A potted history